Tom - Softcover

Freer, Dave

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0992549035 ISBN 13: 9780992549039

Publisher: Magic Isle Press, 2016

Synopsis

Tom is a cat in trouble. The worst possible kind of trouble: he’s been turned into a human. Transformed by an irascible old magician in need of a famulus -- a servant and an assistant, Tom is as good at being a servant as a cat ever is. The assistant part is more to Tom’s taste: he rather fancies impressing the girl cats and terrorizing the other toms by transforming himself into a tiger. But the world of magic, a vanished and cursed princess, and a haunted skull, and a demon in the chamber-pot, to say nothing of conspiring wizards and the wickedest witch in the west, all seem to be out to kill Tom. He is a cat coming to terms with being a boy, dealing with all this. He has a raven and a cheese as… sort of allies.And of course there is the princess.If you were looking for ‘War and Peace’ this is the wrong book for you. It’s a light-hearted and gently satirical fantasy, full of terrible puns and… cats.

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About the Author

Dave Freer is the author of more books than he has fingers and toes to count them on. Some of them blundered onto the Wall Street Journal and Locus bestseller lists before respectable novels got together in a body and threw them back in the gutter where they belong. Somehow his novel CHANGELING’S ISLAND ended up as both a fantasy and YA finalist in the Dragon Awards. Fortunately wisdom prevailed and they gave the award to Sir Terry Pratchett instead. Freer originally trained as an Ichthyologist, working for fisheries as the Chief Scientist on the Commercial Shark Fishery in the Western Cape (South Africa) but was tricked into writing by being told the hours were better, the meals more regular and the spelling requirements easier. They lied on all counts, but Freer is gullible. That’s why he has spent an inordinate amount of time clinging to cliffs by his fingertips, wondering when he’s going to fall to a sticky death, or arm-wrestling rock lobster in narrow underwater caves in a ‘who-gets-to-eat-who’ contest. If there is some job no sane person would take on, he’s probably made a horrible mess of it. It does give him something to write about, in between these forays. He now lives on Flinders Island, in the middle of Bass Strait, loved by his dogs, ruled by his cats and survived by his wonderful long-suffering wife. She puts up with his sense of humor and corrects his grammar, possibly because he does the cooking – which he does better than he writes, and she likes rock lobster.

Edition details

• Publisher: Magic Isle Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0992549035
• ISBN 13: 9780992549039
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224